Aspies For Freedom

Let's say that someone you knew wanted to wish away a certain trait of their personality but couldn't and went around moping and sulking and was really depressed about it. Wouldn't you agree that that person would need to see a therapist. That's what I equate being an autistic curebie to because I see autism as a different state of being, not as an illness. About me ordering you off to see a therapist, I didn't say that all autistic curebies should be packed off to see therapists. I said something more about needing to see a therapist. If you don't think you need any advice, simply say "Thanks for the tip, but I don't think I need it." My mother told me that that's the polite way to refuse advice.
P. S. I love the reference to 1984. I forgot to tell you that earlier, Wolfy

*Reads past posts, realizes skyblue1 is right, and hangs head in shame*

The NAS do a handy little card and leaflet ,which I got through Asperger United a few years ago, had it renewed for about £3 - I think they are still doing them. Has been useful when dealing with the police, council and other 'official' bodies, employers etc so I don't have to expain. I carry it everywhere - has explanation of autism, says this person has autism on the front, and has the advantage of being a 'real' document - not just something I maybe making up.

May they be excommunicated from whatever church they belong to, and any other they try to get into!

Tony Atwood has let us down. As I suspected he would. S-called wise people with common sense on WP said that he did not want to cure us and one said that he was our Professor X.


All those families who say their autistic people don't understand how much they stress and depress their NT relatives with their autism is awful. What are they doing by saying that? Stressing and depressing their autie relatives. And furthermore, they really lay into their autie relatives whe the auties say that the NTs don't understand how much stress they're causing the auties, not just with their NT behavior but with the TRYING TO FORCE THE AUTIES TO BE OR PRETEND TO BE NT.


BluesMom, about the brain tumor thing, my father once said that people with Tourette's Syndrome have brain tumors and that autistics also have benign brain tumors.

Wolfy, anxiety is one of the symptoms for AS (or is it PDD-NOS?) mentioned in the DSM.

One of the many, many things that attracted me to "Stan" was that he was so smart and nice and wise and sweet and kind and I thought I could get all those qualities by being around him, and I was so thrilled that someone like THAT had chosen ME! And he doesn't know if I have an ASD. A few times he said he doubted I did.

That's an excellent idea! I love it!

Good on you! Way to go!

this is one of the reasons i don't want to be a parent.

I do not consider it difficult, I consider my aspie son to be the greatest blessing of my life and I wouldn't have him any other way. What I DO consider difficult are people who make his life hard through stigma, discrimination, bias, hatefulness, whining about how "abnormal" ASD are and, expecting everyone to think and act and be the same, and the fascists at FAAAS who would rid the world of every single aspie if they could find a way to do it. And who are going to make my son's adult life very difficult.

To be an aspie/ASD is truly exhausting at times, and navigating daily life can be a real challenge. Yet all they often hear is how hard it is for those WITHOUT such challenges and issues to deal with them. And family often doesn't make any effort to try to communicate in a way the aspie/ASD would understand, they expect the ASD to always change themselves all the time. They have the luxury of walking away from the ASD, even for just a little while, while the aspie has no choice and can't just "walk away" from their brain. How about a little compassion for THEM in always hearing about how hard they are to be with, dealing with such whining, dealing with groups who want to "cure" them as if they're some kind of horrible disease, etc., etc.

Once again, I repeat that I do not find it difficult to be the parent of an aspie son; in fact, I find it rewarding and interesting. I do not need to join a "woe is me, look at the difficult child life has saddled me with" groups.

If you are the parent of an ASD, then you need to be far more concerned with the very detrimental and damaging effect the likes of FAAAS and Maxine Aston and her CAD nonsense will have on the life of your child, especially in adulthood, as they actively work to promote and promulgate discrimination against aspies in courts, child custody and family life, personal and social relationships and employment, and promote negative stereotypes and misinformation to the public at large, than you do with any detrimental effect on you or the rest of your family. Because, believe me, FAAAS and company are very real threats.

Exactly, thank you!! Some more "traditional" members of my family need to learn this as well.

My husband, my son's stepfather, has some aspie-like traits, but is definitely not an aspie and has not been diagnosed as such, nor would he, as he does not fit enough of the criteria. But there are some people, namely an ex-wife, who is convinced he's an aspie based on their own misinformed perceptions and notions. One major reason for that is that there are too many professionals in this country who still don't fully understand AS and have too superficial a knowledge/understanding of it at this point in time. That is where public education is crucial, and not the hate misinformation campaigns of the likes of FAAAS and Maxine Aston and company.